Apartment AMC
Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Product Spec Sheet

ElementBrandProduct Name
TapsVOLA
Floor Lamp Flos
Atollo Oluce
Wall Light - Coffee tables e15
North, Habibi, Charlotte, Calvert, Vier
Furniture GANDIABLASCO
Tropez
Table LampWastberg
w102 Chipperfield

Product Spec Sheet
Atollo
Wall Light - Coffee tables
North, Habibi, Charlotte, Calvert, Vier by e15
Furniture
Tropez by GANDIABLASCO
Table Lamp
w102 Chipperfield by Wastberg

Apartment AMC

RAR.STUDIO as Architects

The apartment is located in one of the blocks making up Terraços de Bragança: the set of buildings designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira in Lisbon’s Chiado district that completed construction in 2004.

Working within the scope of a Siza Vieira project represents a difficultly desirable challenge. The inexorable weight of the inherent responsibility runs in parallel to a sense of pointlessness of intervening within a framework that requires no such work. We thus focused on the needs, desires and expectations of the client.

The apartment area was to be maximised. To this end, we eliminated the technical cabinets and their ventilation infrastructures, which were relocated behind the already existing suspended ceiling. Furthermore the spatial structure was maintained while repositioning only the door accessing the living room and removing the wall that closed off the dining room.

The built-in living room shelf-stand, where the room meets the corridor, was replaced by another: a delicate metallic structure to separate the two areas while enabling a mutual visual relationship – privileging the apartment’s marvellous westward view – and the natural illumination of the corridor.

The en suite and service bathrooms, as well as the kitchen and pantry, underwent structural alterations with the reorganisation of their layouts alongside new finishing materials.

The dark wooden floor tiling, in narrow planks, was replaced by lighter, broader planks. The inner doors, at a substantially lower height than the windows, were rescaled, retaining their breadth and raising their height to match that of the windows. Furthermore, within the scope of the purpose of this operation, the entire carpentry system underwent redesigning with higher skirting boards and thinner frames that also integrated new ventilation grids in both the skirting boards and fixed furniture. The objective was to bring about a more luminous apartment while fostering a greater sensation of amplitude and, above all, of a more generous ceiling height.

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